Registration open for Wakanyeja conference

Registration is now open for “Wakanyeja: A Conference on American Indian Behavioral Health,” taking place April 23-24.

The symposium will kick off with a panel discussion on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders on April 23 in the Barb Weitz Community Engagement Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the program begins at 6:15 p.m. Food will be provided.

On April 24, the symposium will be held at the Truhlsen Campus Events Center inside the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Featured speakers include:

• Charles Sitting Bull, Oglala Sioux, director of behavioral health at Pine Ridge Indian Health Service Hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota;
• Lancer Stephens, Wichita/Muscogee Creek, director of special populations outreach and assistant professor of research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;
• Joseph Marshall III, Rosebud Sioux, author and tribal elder;
• David Wilson, Ph.D., Navajo, director of tribal health research, National Institutes of Health; and
• Jennifer Giroux, M.D., Rosebud Sioux, of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board.

UNMC, in collaboration with the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are co-hosting the conference.

For more information and to register, click here.